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the inhabitants of Ierusalem. 19 This Passeouer caryed of the vessels of the house of the Lord
was kept in the eighteenth yeere of the reigne of to Babel, and put them in his temple at Babel.
Iosiah. 20 After all this, when Iosiah had prepared 8 Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoiakim,
the Temple, Necho King of Egypt came vp to fight and his abominations which he did, and that
against Carchemish by Perath, and Iosiah went which was founde vpon him, behold, they are
out against him. 21 But he sent messengers to written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and
him, saying, What haue I to doe with thee, thou Iudah, and Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his
King of Iudah? I come not against thee this day, stead. Iehoiachin was eight yeere olde when he
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but against the house of mine enemie, and God beganne to reigne, and he reigned three moneths
commanded me to make haste: leaue of to come and ten dayes in Ierusalem, and did euill in the
against God, which is with me, least he destroy sight of the Lord. 10 And when the yeere was
thee. 22 But Iosiah would not turne his face from out, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him
him, but changed his apparel to fight with him, to Babel with the precious vessels of the house
and hearkened not vnto the wordes of Necho, of the Lord, and he made Zedekiah his brother
which were of the mouth of God, but came to King ouer Iudah and Ierusalem. 11 Zedekiah was
fightinthevalleyofMegiddo. 23 Andtheshooters one and twentie yeere olde, when he beganne to
shot at king Iosiah: then the King saide to his reigne, and reigned eleuen yeere in Ierusalem.
seruants, Cary me away, for I am very sicke. 24 So 12
his seruants tooke him out of that charet, and And he did euill in the sight of the Lord his God,
put him in the seconde charet which he had, and humbled not himselfe before Ieremiah the
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and when they had brought him to Ierusalem, Prophet at the commandement of the Lord, But
he rebelled moreouer against Nebuchadnezzar,
he dyed, and was buryed in the sepulchres of his which had caused him to sweare by God: and he
fathers: and all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned
for Iosiah. 25 And Ieremiah lamented Iosiah, hardened his necke and made his heart obstinate
and al singing men and singing women mourned that he might not returne to the Lord God of
for Iosiah in their lamentations to this day, and Israel. 14 All the chiefe of the Priestes also and of
the people trespassed wonderfully, according to
made the same for an ordinance vnto Israel: and
beholde, they be written in the lamentations. all the abominations of the heathen, and polluted
26 Concerning the rest of the actes of Iosiah and the house of the Lord which he had sanctified
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his goodnesse, doing as it was written in the in Ierusalem. Therefore the Lord God of their
fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising
Lawe of the Lord, 27 And his deedes, first and last, earely and sending: for he had compassion on
behold, they are written in the booke of the Kings his people, and on his habitation. 16 But they
of Israel and Iudah. mocked the messengers of God and despised his
36 wordes, and misused his Prophets, vntill the
wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and
1 Then the people of the lande tooke Iehoa- till there was no remedie. 17 For he brought vpon
haz the sonne of Iosiah, and made him king them the King of the Caldeans, who slewe their
in his fathers steade in Ierusalem. 2 Iehoahaz yong men with the sworde in the house of their
was three and twentie yeere old when he be- Sanctuarie, and spared neither yong man, nor
gan to reigne, and he reigned three moneths in virgin, ancient, nor aged. God gaue all into his
Ierusalem. 3 And the King of Egypt tooke him hande, 18 And all the vessels of the house of God
away at Ierusalem, and condemned the lande great and small, and the treasures of the house
in an hundreth talents of siluer, and a talent of the Lord, and the treasures of the King, and of
of gold. 4 And the King of Egypt made Eliakim 19
his brother King ouer Iudah and Ierusalem, and his princes: all these caryed he to Babel. And
turned his name to Iehoiakim: and Necho tooke they burnt the house of God, and brake downe
Iehoahaz his brother, and caryed him to Egypt. the wall of Ierusalem, and burnt all the palaces
5 Iehoiakim was fiue and twentie yeere old, when thereof with fire, and all the precious vessels
he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeere thereof, to destroy all. 20 And they that were left
in Ierusalem, and did euill in the sight of the Lord by the sworde, caryed he away to Babel, and they
his God. Against him came vp Nebuchadnezzar were seruants to him and to his sonnes, vntill the
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To fulfill
kingdome of the Persians had rule,
King of Babel, and bounde him with chaines the worde of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremiah,
to cary him to Babel. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also